Obama woos ‘Julia,’ other single women with
promise of lifelong subsidies
Daily
Caller ^ | 3/5/12 | By Neil Munro
Republicans,
conservatives and aides to Gov. Mitt Romney are deriding
the Obama campaign’s latest pitch to women — a video slide
show that describes how progressive politicians aid a
fictional woman named Julia throughout her life.
The
slide show follows an apparently unparented Julia who is
enrolled in Head Start, gets free contraceptives while she
works as a 20-something web designer, has one child,
retires around age 65 and finally volunteers in a
community garden.
“That’s
their dream for women?” asked Wendy Wright, a social
conservative leader and acting director of the
conservative Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute.
“That she be alone, without family, struggling as a single
parent, dependent on a government that is going broke?”
“This
is not the American dream,” Wright told The Daily Caller.
“It’s creepy. … It’s what China promises its people.”
“The
fact that President Obama’s campaign has to create fake
people to distract from how his abysmal policies have
failed real people is sad and extremely pathetic,” added
Ryan Williams, a spokesman for the Romney campaign.
The
Obama campaign’s online pitch is part of its overall
effort to boost turnout by single women, who are a vital
bloc of the Democrats’ coalition. Single women tend to
vote for Democratic politicians who are eager to provide
them with money, security and personal autonomy.